JURI 510 Quiz Hindu and Confucian Legal
JURI 510 Quiz 4 Hindu and Confucian Legal Traditions
- Being Hindu originally had more to do with belief, rather than territory like it is today.
- Vedic law lived in close association with many traditions, especially chthonic traditions, never purporting to abrogate them, and the importance of local tradition is an ongoing theme in Hindu thought.
- Buddhism emerged essentially in protest against the legal formalism of Hindu teaching.
- In a Confucian society motivated by a sense of loyalty to human relations there is no major impetus to change.
- The Confucian legal system is full of attorneys often litigating small details in many layers of Civil courts.
- The kings of India have always possessed some regulatory or legislative power.
- The Confucian tradition is a pluralist from of legal order, in which different forms of normativity co-exist and even constantly rub against one another, each being recognized by the other as necessary yet each busily pushing at the boundary which separates them.
- In China, there is a long tradition of fa playing a subordinate role to the li of the Confucians.
- The law of the Sastras is now legislation, meant to establish a single, common statutory standard for all Hindus.
- Dharma is:
- There are three great Dharmasastras, which one of the following is not:
- Since Confucianism is based on the idea of the innate goodness of human nature, it cannot be said to be opposed to the value of human life.
- One of the main reasons that fa is often lacking in credibility is because it has been used as an instrument of politics and public order.
- The Ch’in empire was to be one of li, and the notion of li was a key idea in its creation.
- Teaching the Vedas was the task of the _____________, who did it largely from __________.
- Li is a sovereign command.
- Match the following: Fa Li Confucian society Guanxi
- Match the following: